Cool Topics in Neonatology 2024

Each year, the Royal Women’s Hospital presents the eagerly awaited conference, “Cool Topics in Neonatology”. Now celebrating its seventeenth year, this prestigious event has earned its place as Australia’s largest Neonatology conference, capturing significant media attention and drawing over 300 distinguished medical, nursing, and allied health professionals from Victoria, interstate, and around the globe.

Join us for Cool Topics in Neonatology 2024 to take a look into the future of neonatal care.

We’ll be covering a diverse range of topics from transforming intergenerational trauma for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families to exploring the latest in obstetrics technology.

We’ll be bringing you the latest on neonatal nutrition and oxygen therapy. How do we navigate the brave new world of individual patient and network meta-analyses and how should these change our practice? What are the priority research questions for our tiniest babies born before 25 weeks' gestation? And you’ll hear from families about their experiences of neonatal and palliative care and their views on what topics we should be researching.

Don't miss your chance to be part of this groundbreaking event shaping the future of neonatal care worldwide!

https://www.thewomens.org.au/cool-topics-conference

COOL NIGHT OUT

Social and Networking Event

We are very excited to offer you an invitation to unwind and connect with your fellow attendees at our first ever Cool Topics in Neonatology COOL NIGHT OUT!

Tickets $80 for registrants, $100 for partners (max 2 tickets per registrant).

Please purchase your tickets within the registration page - just scroll to the bottom

Venue: BAROQ HOUSE https://www.baroqhouse.com.au/

Address: 9 Drewery Lane, Melbourne

Date: Thursday 28th November (the middle night of Cool Topics)

Time: 7pm-11pm

Dress: COOL COCKTAIL

The evening is heavily subsidized by Cool Topics, and $80 gets you:

• Substantial food offerings
• 4 hours of drinks
• Dancing and DJ
• A very COOL Melbourne venue

Limited tickets available, so first in best dressed!

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Cool Topics 2024 Program

Day 1

Thursday, November 28

7:30 AM | Registration

Welcome tea and coffee served in the foyer

Session 1

8:30 AM | Welcome to Cool Topics 2024

8:35 AM | Chris Gale

Presentation: Advancing neonatal nutrition through clinical trials and observational studies

9:05 AM | Jane Alsweiler

Presentation: Sweet as! Understanding neonatal hypoglycaemia

9:35 AM | Brett Manley

Presentation: PLUSS PLUS! What more can we learn from a large, multicentre trial in extremely preterm infants?

10:05 AM | Panel discussion & Q&A

10:30 AM | Morning tea

Session 2

11:00 AM | Sid Vermuri

Presentation: Seeking alignment of care goals and sharing treatment decisions

11:30 AM | Samantha O’Dwyer

Presentation: Nora’s story

12:00 PM | Panel discussion & Q&A

12:30 PM | Lunch

Session 3

1:30 PM | Session Theme: Not so benign – long term outcomes after late preterm birth: perspectives from both sides of the Tasman

1:30 PM | Jane Alsweiler

Presentation: The New Zealand perspective

2:00 PM | Jeanie Cheong

Presentation: The Australian perspective

2:30 PM | Panel discussion & Q&A

3:00 PM | Afternoon tea

Session 4

3:30 PM | Stacey Peart

Presentation: Priority setting for research in our most immature patients: what do those with lived experience think?

4:00 PM | Chris Gale

Presentation: Parent involvement and different approaches to consent in neonatal trials

4:30 PM | Panel discussion & Q&A

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Cool Topics 2024 Program

Day 2

Friday, November 29

7:30 AM | Registration

Welcome tea and coffee served in the foyer

Session 1

8:30 AM | Cath Chamberlain
Presentation: Replanting the birthing trees: transforming cycles of intergenerational trauma for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families

9:00 AM | Karen Walker
Presentation: Every newborn counts everywhere

9:30 AM | Fiona Brownfoot
Presentation: Novel medical devices in Obstetrics

10:00 AM | Panel discussion & Q&A

10:30 AM | Morning tea

Session 2

11:00 AM | Shiraz Badurdeen
Presentation: How much oxygen is too much? Emerging data and evidence gaps

11:20 AM | Peter Dargaville

Presentation: Getting oxygenj ust right: the role of automation

11:40 AM | Hamish Graham

Presentation: Putting safe oxygen for newborns on the global agenda

12:00 PM | Panel discussion & Q&A

12:30 PM | Lunch

Session 3

1:30 PM | Anna Lene Seidler
Presentation: Precision in neonatal care: lessons from the iCOMP and NETMOTION collaborations

2:15 PM | Stuart Hooper
Presentation: Physiological-based cord clamping: an update

2:45 PM | Panel discussion & Q&A

3:00 PM | Afternoon tea

Session 4

3:30 PM | Chris Gale
Presentation: Waterbirth: a UK perspective

4:00 PM | Kate Hodgson
Presentation: Hole In one? Improving our subpar intubations

4:30 PM | Panel discussion & Q&A

We are grateful for the support of our sponsors for this years event.